We've had a joyful week together. I finished up reading check-ins and we got back into our reading groups. Many students also take their free time to read together in the morning or practice reading sight words. Each child has a sight word booklet to help them practice frequently used words--a lot of which don't follow standard rules so you just have to know them on site. For each page (of 10 words) a child masters (can read as quickly as their own name, 5 times to get a bundle of tallies) we earn 1 tally on our bonus recess chart. One of the fox kits counted up all the tallies we've earned so far this year and it's over 100 tallies! The fox kits collectively have mastered over 1,000 sight words so far this year!!! That is incredible!
We also finished up a few more teaching books this week. It's amazing to see them working in such an engaged way to teach others about topics of interest. Some of the teaching books they've written include: tornados, school mornings, volcanoes, lady bugs, legos, art, dragons, avengers, and how to ride a bike!
We finished reading our non-fiction anchor text on sharks this week. We also sang a funny shark song, Baby Shark. We will have one more week after the vacation to finish up our non-fiction reading and writing unit before moving on to writing opinion and persuasive pieces.
On Friday we celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday (a week early). We read The Foot Book and had a special guest visitor, the Lorax herself, read us the story of The Lorax! We did some fun Dr. Seuss inspired writing and activities, read a news article about his writing and life, and in the afternoon watched a movie adaptation of another of his books, Horton Hears a Who!
We finished up our Big Change Roundup fundraiser for the Children's Hospital. The school collected over $1,600 to donate! This is amazing. Mr. Schlatter won the contest and toured the school in his T-Rex costume all day. It was fun to celebrate this good deed with some fun for everyone.
We had an assembly to learn about Jump Rope for Heart -- another fundraising event our school will take part in next month. Your child brought home an envelope and information about raising money for this cause if you choose to do so. For more information check out their website: http://american.heart.org/jump-hoops/about/
We are working hard to show HEART each and every day. This week we focused on having quiet transitions. There are so many times we switch activities each day and consistently doing this in a quiet way helps us be more appropriate with our bodies and ready to engage in learning. We also love to end our day counting up all of our high 5s and hearts that we earned by showing HEART all day long.
I hope you have a great vacation and I'll see the kids back here on Wednesday March 7th!
Dates to Remember:
Monday February 26 - Tuesday March 6 - Winter Break (3/5 and 3/6 are Teacher In-Service days)
Wednesday March 7 - school resumes
Wednesday March 14 - Half Day - Dismissal at 12:15 for Teacher Inservice - after school activities available
Wednesday March 14 - Jump Rope for Heart event
Friday March 16 - Report Cards go home
Friday March 23 - Fun Fair (PTO event) 4:30-6:30 pm
Have a great, long vacation!
❤ Mrs. Fox
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